christmas cheer and leather fun.

Well, today I finally finished a lot of my Christmas presents- it was a fun and frustrating set of trial and error. I only have mums left to go. but I don't really know what else to make her! a star trek scarf, maybe?!

I made two belts this year, one for Craig and one for my dad. Craig's has the name of his property stamped in it, Limestone, and is dyed black, and my dads has our last name stamped on it and a scotch thistle or two. ( David said it looked like a pineapple!) I have made some masks as you know.- and now i finally have a camera that Dave bought for me and him to share. its a kodak Z650 with ten times zoom. mmmm yeah.
anyway here are some pictures of my masks.

the green man


pacman mask



masquerade!

soon (after Christmas) I will update my Etsy with a few different things.
I have an 80s party to go to on Tuesday, then going to my grandmas on Wednesday night. after Christmas my brother is going to come back to Bendigo to stay with me for a week.- I am happy!
Happy summer solstice everyone, and a merry Christmas.

Lefflers is god.

today i went to Lefflers in the city and I was seriously blown away by the enormity of the store! It is seriously huuuuge. I wish I could have found a dark corner in that store and a paperbag to hyperventilate into just to get over the shock of how huge it is! the saddlery lady said it was tiny.. well this is the new place and it was beyond huge... woah... LEATHER SUPERSTORE!!!!!!

P.S Footscray is some kind of scrummy hole! I got asked for cash twice ( I must look like a fresh faced bumpkin or something) and I saw a drug deal go down- from proposition to collection, a meter away!! it was right-out-front- of the bus door! The poor bus driver was so disillusioned with life, he didn't even ask for my ticket and when I showed him my vline ticket, I asked him if i could use that to get on, and he shrugged his shoulders and said "meh." poor dude.

onto something coool...


I really like this, and truly I can empathise. I feel like I too could focus solely on leathercraft... it has so much potential.

update 15/12/08

I have made a few masks now, and have a few cut out- i plan to go to leflers tomorrow to get some stuff for christmas presents and the like. it should be great. unfortunatly i dont have a camera at the moment (still) so i cant take any photos to show you my new beauties! soooon my preciousssss sooooon.

i have made adris, murrays,and kays present, but as of yet have not made craig ( which we had a good idea of making btw- a leather belt with the name of his farm on it! or mums... i still dont really know what to make her, as i cant find any black fleece, polar or otherwise to make her scoodie. we will just have to wing it! i will upload some photos to this blog post as soon as i get something to help me download stuff onto the comp from my phone.

been practicing using photoshop too- new skin colours etc and trying to draw from scratch. we will see how that goes.

christmas lists!

Well its that awful time of year again! The holiday season! Presents abound!
Here is a temporary list of what i am making/getting for family

Dave: 100%
Murray: 100%
Faith: 100%
Anita:100%
Alex: black gloves with skull embroidery & ??? (30%)
mum: perfume, scoodie, (50%)
Adri: 100% ( soodie,notebook)
dad: *leather carved belt (98%)
iz: *leather covered book like caseys?
oma: dutch hamper (0%)

tegan/corey:?? (found something...)
casey? ( found something...)

Yeah... making this list has just proved how unorganised i am... maybe it will serve as a reminder to start creating stuff much earlier! hehehe

a while..

It has been a while that's for sure! i haven't stopped making things at all, I just still don't have a camera to set up and take photos with!

The latest news on the university front is shocking. Roger Sworder is leaving the uni and taking the redundancy package, John Penwill is gone and so there is only one lecturer working in the philosophy department now and that is Rod Blackhirst! sadness:( Harry will be away for long service leave as well! My final year of uni will be a sad one.

On another note, Dave had all of last week off, which was great! It was so fun to have him around the house, it is definitely something I could get used to.

November the 18th will forever be etched into my mind as the great Kyneton car scare of 2008- an annual holiday shared by Casey, Tegan, Kirby, Kirsten and I.

I have made a few different things, but close friends will be getting some stuff off Etsy as presents, which i still have to do.

I have made the girls some little dolls, some capes and bought some hair clips and bands. fun times.

I got a new phone, but still have the same number and finallllllly got my bike in a near working state- i just need to adjust the breaks and stuff!

Saturday night was Mel's Hens night, that was fun! we got drunk in Sal's mums abandoned house and played games and stuffs.Dave made a shirt with this image on it!



We have an house inspection (our first) on Thursday, that should be fun... not!... I should go do some gardening actually....

Anyway, tomorrow I will upload my gift list for my family and maybe link to some pictures or something! or if I can use my phone camera....

Over and out for today!